Blake Lively Thanks Ryan Reynolds for Being “Everything to Me”

We’ve seen what happens when Ryan Reynolds wins awards. “I want to thank my wife, Blake. Everything I do is to make her laugh. Especially the sex,” he said at the MTV Movie Awards in April. “I want to thank my wife, Blake, who is sitting right there who is everything to me. You are the best thing that has ever happened to me,” he said while accepting his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. And at the People’s Choice Awards on Wednesday, Blake Lively got to return the favor.

“Thank you to my husband, who’s everything to me,” she said while accepting the award for favorite dramatic movie actress for her work in The Shallows. “You can’t have him, he’s mine!,” she added to someone in the audience who cheered at the previous line.

The rest of her speech was distinctly Reynolds-ian, chock-full of self-deprecating humor hiding an actual message. “I think this was a ploy to get me up here because I really love Westworld,” she joked about getting the award from Luke Hemsworth (yes, of the Hemsworths that they export to us from down under). Lively then launched into a bit about dreaming about meeting the Spice Girls as a kid—but she had a point, and it was girl power. Her words about how women can do anything even had Kristen Bell tearing up in the audience.

While it’s a great night for Lively’s role in The Shallows, it was a tough show for the film’s other main character. Steven Seagull was not nominated for favorite bird—although it was a stacked year in film, bird-wise. The canary in Arrival really put in the work, as did the chicken in Moana.

Blake Lively Had a Truly Excellent 2016

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The year began for Lively with the release of the movie her husband, Ryan Reynolds, had fought to make for years, Deadpool. The film would go on to be nominated for two Golden Globes in December and become the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time.